Multidimensional Scaling is a technique to visualise similarities in datasets. It works by projecting a high-dimensional dataset into a two-dimensional space. While the resulting visualisations...

This visualization presents an aesthetic and holistic way of viewing local climate patterns and the relationships between various weather parameters. Playing with the Wikipedia common...

Using retained call data, what can we find about about 'Will'? 

Political Polarization in the U.S. Congress has been a topic of much discussion recently. This visualisation shows polarization of the House of Representatives through time, with a focus on which...

An interactive tool for healthcare providers to explore data from clinical trials. Peer-reviewed manuscripts can only describe a small fraction of the data generated in a clinical trial. Our tool...

You’re a social scientist with a hunch: The U.S. economy is affected by whether Republicans or Democrats are in office. Try to show that a connection exists, using real data going back to 1948....

Find, compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications …

RAINSCAPES is an interactive visualization that aims to show the variable amount of precipitations and weather related events during a time span of ten years on the United States west...

On April 25, Nepal was hit with the biggest Earthquake in 80 years - but just how big was it?

If you suffer a permanent injury on the job, you’re typically entitled to compensation for the damage to your body and your future lost wages. But depending on the state, benefits for the same...

William Shakespeare coined these 300 words and phrases over 400 years ago. How often do we still use them?

“Who is the greatest singer?” is something which is debated endlessly. Data alone can’t easily answer this question, however there are data points which can add to the conversation. So, when Head...

Another summer, another dollar. There is no financial crisis in football. The figures for player transfers in major competitions around the world exceeded record numbers made during economic boom...

An infographic based on a survey of fears that I conducted, which focuses on the correlation of the age the fear began, how severe it is, and what type of fear it is. It also explores whether...

"Histography" is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new...

Bike commuting throughout the city is often like this: cobbled together out of a bit of bike lane here, an unprotected shoulder there, a scrap of sharrow and some silent pleas that cars won't run...

For The Migration Observatory in Oxford, CLEVERFRANKE created two different visualizations exploring the topic of migration; the first focusing on quantitative data taken from the 2011 UK census,...

A representation of the Solar System in perfect scale: the moon is one pixel, the sun, the planets and the space between them, all in correct scale.

See how money distorts your government, and what you can do about it. @tonyhschu

There is something wrong with the global financial system. While that idea is widely shared since the 2008 crisis, we still don’t fully understand what needs to be changed, and what we can...

The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. The 15-minute data...

Commissioned by BRIGHT for Twitter France, Doris Le Bot creates unique digital creatures from real-time tweets, born from various properties of the users' Twitter profile. During ab event in...

Every day, New York City’s 5.5 million commuters seed the city subways with bacteria from the food they eat, the pets or plants they keep, and their shoes, sneezes and unwashed hands. No two subway...

Drawing on 10,000 videos from the internet, Network Effect explores the psychological impact of Internet use on humanity. The project contains 10,000 video clips, 10,000 spoken sentences, news,...

We give far too much credence to individual statistics on social and economic well-being. Take the poverty rate. That statistic tells us the share of the population below a specific income...

UK political party pass you by? Play it again - 8-bit videogame style music and animation!

In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...

Cartesian is the first Italian blog dedicated entirely to Information Design. The site's aim is to explore the subject in all its facets, increase visibility and attention to the matter, and...

Early GOP debate: who was top searched? Chart of the changing ranks of Republican candidates during the debate on Google search.

The annual number of new cancer cases worldwide is predicted to increase from 14 million in 2012 to almost 22 million in 2030 due to population growth and aging alone. But each country has...